Replying to Avatar Dr. Hax

nostr:npub137c5pd8gmhhe0njtsgwjgunc5xjr2vmzvglkgqs5sjeh972gqqxqjak37w I hear you know things about lightning. Do you have any recommended documentation or guides?

Specifically, I want the understand what it means to open a channel (inbound or outbound), what signatures are generated and shuffled around between servers for each transaction, who can do a force close and why they might do so, why liquidity managemrnt is necessary, why all nodes need to watch the chain at all times, what they are looking for and what they do if they see it, and what reconcillation looks like on-chain.

All the guides I have seen so far seem to either omit all of these things, or they just assume the reader knows all of these things. In either case, they don't offer an explanation.

I thought these were all just basic, high level concepts, as opposed to getting into low level things like op codes but as I talk to more people about ln, it seems they're somewhere in between high level and low level. Maybe that's why I am having trouble finding this info?

Hey! I’d say a good start would be here. I would avoid using LND now, until they improve some of the code and fix fundamental issues that cause FC, but the docs are a good intro 🐶🐾🫔

https://docs.lightning.engineering/

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This is perfect! Ty!